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damage will become more clear after the “June drop,” when farmers are able to see whether fruit has actually been pollinated and will set.
Cold temperatures can also affect pollination, because insects don’t fly in the cold, Love said.
Dr. Keith Yoder of the Virginia Cooperative Extension in Winchester warned against early predictions about freeze damage.
He said some farmers in central and southern Virginia initially thought their crops had been destroyed, but now they are finding the damage was much less dire than what was forecast.
Yoder also pointed out that a peach tree has 10 times the number of blooms needed for a crop and that apples can have secondary blooms after the primary buds die. So some freeze damage does not necessarily mean a crop will be destroyed.
The county’s vineyards should be mostly safe, because the grapes in Rappahannock
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